Mapping the Futures |
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Author:
| Bird, Jon |
Editor:
| Bird, Jon Curtis, Barry Putnam, Tim Robertson, George Tickner, Lisa Bird, John |
ISBN: | 978-1-280-11253-9 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
Publisher: | Routledge
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $91.95 |
Book Description:
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There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these? Mapping the Futures is the first of a series which brings together cultural theorists from different disciplines to assess the implications of economic, political and social change for intellectual inquiry and...
More DescriptionThere are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these?
Mapping the Futures is the first of a series which brings together cultural theorists from different disciplines to assess the implications of economic, political and social change for intellectual inquiry and cultural practice.